Now it is time to create water drops. Drawing drops one by one is not very efficient. Instead, we will use the power of Photoshop brush settings! Create new layer, then open Brushes palette window (from Window menu). Click brush tip shape. set Diameter to 13px (or adjust it accroding to your image size). Set spacing to about 200%.

Then click Shape Dynamics = make sure the checkbox is checked. Set Size Jitter to about 75%, and minimum diameter to about 50%.

Now make a single brush stroke, and you should get many nice water drops" in a single stroke!"

Now, the lines of spiderweb are visible through water drops. This is not very beautiful. Right-click on thumbnail" icon representing drops layer in Layers palette

Select layer with spider web, and delete selection.

I want to add small white highlight (as if reflecting light from above) to each waterdrop, but it cannot be done with layer effects. I also do not want to use brush to put every dot manually. Instead, Select Pixels of water drops layer again. Then go to Select menu - Modify - Contract (2px).

Nir10 Август 2008Your skills and wallpapers are nothing less than amazing. Thanks!

bee28 Август 2008very nice...thank you..

Dux9 Септември 2008Great, Vlad!

pakdee29 Септември 2008woooowww!!! great.

Thomas1 Октомври 2008A dear friend recommended your site a year ago. Since then, your wallpapers are the only ones I see every day! Very good work! Keep doing great things!

Ioana3 Октомври 2008very impressive your tutorials but also your art : the imagination, the compositions and the way you combine the colours

usha3 Ноември 2008very nice effect.simply super

Rita25 Ноември 2008Есть на кого равняться. Супер!

aska12 Декември 2008You are amazing thanks for all!!!

Oridusartic8 Март 2009Thank you for the tutorial Vlad. It rocks! ^^

Blue22 Март 2009Superb...

Anja8 Юни 2009I saw this tutorial on eyesontutorials.com, it's really nice. I wonder however, when giving the drop shadows, the drop shadow and inner drop shadow seem to be connected in a way. If I set the inner drop shadow to -90, like you say, the "normal" drop shadow changes as well, from 120 to -90, and that's how it comes on top of the water drop instead of underneath it... Do you have a solution for that ?

TC17 Юли 2009Wonderful work! Love it! Thanks for the lessons!

Francesca13 Август 2009You're a true artist! And the best is sharing your techniques...thank you very much!

Nicole15 Септември 2009Ixy trix mon hixie ticks

umesh10 Октомври 2009goooooooood

Andras2 Ноември 2009You are brilliant. Thank you very much, Vlad!

jNy!13 Декември 2009Ово је ингениозно!

van basten1 Януари 2010wooow :D
♥♥like it ♥♥

clippingimages.com18 Януари 2010oww nice.:-)

reena20 Март 2010love

Mohan5 Ноември 2010Brilliant !!!

ttt7 Януари 2012gooo

Eddie11 Април 2012Pretty good tutorial , seems pretty easy.

sean12 Юни 2008nice skill! keep great work!

Phillip Ireland12 Юни 2008Very slick!

ksszi13 Юни 2008greaaaat! :) thx, the tutorial is very useful. :)

Udaya Senthil15 Юни 2008You are the man... I like all your wallpapers....Keep rocking

Lance20 Юни 2008your PS skills blow me away!

jpboy25 Юни 2008cool and awsome

rosy26 Юни 2008Wonderfull wallpaper.Thank you.

Jerry1 Юли 2008Very nice! Thank you very much, Vlad!

Marx8 Юли 2008thanks for the tutorial, I like how most of the wallpapers seem to be MAC made (clean, simple & elegant)

Sergio12 Юли 2008Wow! I stumbled across your artwork yesterday while looking at Cairo Dock for Linux, and immediately fell in love with your Ladybug and Chameleon wallpaper... you're a real artist. Keep it up!

16 Юни 2009Thanks a lot. It's simple, but you have to think of it.
How do you actually make a tutorial, does it take a lot of time to figure out how to achieve a special effect, or do you usually know quite easily how you will do it (f.i. the shine on the water drops, going from left to right and deleting parts).
I'm always amazed to read all these tutorials on the Internet, and I always ask myself how it is done...